Moving picture data edition device and moving picture data edition method

• US 8,090,240 B2
• Filed: 09/15/2005
• Issued: 01/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsuda, Munetaka, Kunieda, Shunsuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Zand, Kambiz
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAYOU, YONAS A
• Application Number:
  US11/576,053
• Publication Number:
  US 20080063357A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,301 Days
• Field of Search: 386/52, 386/283
• US Class Current: 386/283
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

There is provided a video data editing apparatus for making video data edition to set a frame as a predetermined edit point in video data including a plurality of picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames. The apparatus includes an operation command input unit (40) to accept an operation command, a data storage unit (120) to store video data compressed at every picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames and an edit mode controller (102). The edit mode controller makes, based on a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, a selection between a group-unit edit point select mode in which a command for selection of a picture frame group of the video data stored in the storage unit is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame group and a frame-unit edit point select mode in which a command for selection of one frame of a plurality of picture frame groups included in the currently-selected picture frame group is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame, and sets, as an edit point, a picture frame corresponding to the result of selection in the group-unit edit point select mode or a picture frame corresponding to the results of selection in the group- and frame-unit edit point select modes in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

Claims

1. A video data editing apparatus, comprising:

an operation command input unit to accept a user operation command;

a storage unit to store video data compressed into a plurality of picture frame groups, each of the plurality of picture frame groups including a plurality of picture frames; and

an edit mode controller configured to,

make, based on a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, a selection between a group-unit edit point select mode and a frame-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of a picture frame group of the video data stored in the storage unit is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame group in the group-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of one frame of a plurality of picture frame groups included in the currently-selected picture frame group is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame in the frame-unit edit point select mode, and

set, as an edit point, a picture frame corresponding to the result of selection in the group-unit edit point select mode or a picture frame corresponding to the results of selection in the group- and frame-unit edit point select modes in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

2. A video data editing apparatus, comprising:

an operation command input unit to accept a user operation command;

a storage unit to store video data compressed into a plurality of picture frame groups each of the plurality of picture frame groups including a plurality of picture frames; and

an edit mode controller configured to

make, based on a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, a selection between a group-unit edit point select mode and a frame-unit edit point select mode, a group-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each including a thumbnail of one picture frame in a picture frame group included in video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time being displayed and a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail being accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail in the group-unit edit point select mode, a frame-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each including a thumbnail of each of the plurality of picture frames included in a picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time being displayed and a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail in the frame-unit edit point select mode, and

set, as an edit point, a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the edit mode controller displays, when the predetermined-operation command supplied is detected while the group-unit thumbnail array is being displayed in the group-unit edit-point select mode, the frame-unit thumbnail array for the picture frame corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail in correspondence to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail additionally to the group-unit thumbnail array to select the frame-unit edit-point select mode, and

erases, when the predetermined-operation command supplied is detected while the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are being displayed simultaneously in the frame-unit edit-point select mode, the frame-unit thumbnail array to display only the group-unit thumbnail array, to thereby select the group-unit edit-point select mode.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the group-unit thumbnail array and frame-unit thumbnail array are displayed to intersect each other in a position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed in two parallel lines, respectively;

and

the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is displayed distinguishably from other group-unit thumbnails.

6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein only the group-unit thumbnail array is displayed in the group-unit edit-point select mode, while only the frame-unit thumbnail array is displayed in the frame-unit edit-point select mode, each of the group-unit edit-point select mode and the frame-unit edit-point select mode including an indication informing the user of the currently-selected modes.

7. A video data editing apparatus, comprising:

an operation command input unit to accept a user operation command;

a storage unit to store video data compressed into a plurality of picture frame groups, each of the plurality of picture frame groups including a plurality of picture frames; and

an edition controller configured to,

display, simultaneously on a display screen, a group-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each being one picture frame thumbnail of the picture frame group in the video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the group-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail and a frame-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each being a thumbnail of each of a plurality of video frames included in the picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the frame-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail,

accept an operation made via a first control section of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail in the group-unit thumbnail array,

accept an operation made via a second control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail, and setting, in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit, a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail as an edit point.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein:

the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed to intersect each other in the position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

the first control section of the operation command input unit is a directional control for controlling the array direction of the group-unit thumbnails; and

the second control section of the operation command input unit is a direction control for controlling the array direction of the frame-unit thumbnails.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein when supplied with a predetermined-operation command via the operation command input unit in the group-unit edit-point select mode in which a group-unit thumbnail array in which the plurality of group-unit thumbnails is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time is displayed and a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, supplied via the operation command input unit is accepted to change the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, the edition controller shifts to the state in which the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed simultaneously on the display screen.

10. A video data editing apparatus, comprising:

an operation command input unit to accept a user operation command;

a storage unit to store video data compressed into a plurality of picture frame groups each of the plurality of picture frame groups including a plurality of picture frames; and

an edition controller configured to,

display, simultaneously on a display screen, a group-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each being one picture frame thumbnail of the picture frame group in the video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the group-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail and a frame-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each being a thumbnail of each of a plurality of video frames included in the picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the frame-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail,

make, in response to an operation made via a first control section of the operation command input unit, a selection between the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail and the frame-unit thumbnail,

accept an operation made via a second control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail,

accept an operation made via a third control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail, and

set, in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit, a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail as an edit point.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed to intersect each other in the position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

and

the second control section of the operation command input unit is a directional control for controlling the array direction of the group-unit thumbnails and the third control section of the operation command input unit is a direction control for controlling the array direction of the frame-unit thumbnails.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein:

the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed in two parallel lines, respectively;

the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is displayed in such a manner that it can be differentiated from other group-unit thumbnail array(s); and

the second and third control sections of the operation command input unit are the same control section for designating the directions of the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays.

13. A video data editing method of setting a frame as a predetermined edit-point in video data compressed at every picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames and stored in a storage unit, the method comprising:

making, based on a predetermined-operation command supplied via an operation command input unit, a selection between a group-unit edit point select mode and a frame-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of a picture frame group of the video data stored in the storage unit is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame group in the group-unit edit point select mode, a command for selection of one frame of a plurality of picture frame groups included in the currently-selected picture frame group is accepted via the operation command input unit to change the currently-selected picture frame in the frame-unit edit point select mode; and

setting, as an edit point, a picture frame corresponding to the result of selection in the group-unit edit point select mode or a picture frame corresponding to the results of selection in the group- and frame-unit edit point select modes in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

14. A video data editing method of setting a frame as a predetermined edit-point in video data compressed into picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames and stored in a storage unit, the method comprising:

displaying a group-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each including a thumbnail of one picture frame in a picture frame group included in the video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time;

accepting a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, supplied via an operation command input unit, to change a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

displaying a frame-unit thumbnail array in which a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each including a thumbnail of each of a plurality of picture frames included in the picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time;

accepting a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail, supplied via the operation command input unit, to change the currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail;

shifting, in response to a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, from selecting the group-unit thumbnail to selecting the frame-unit thumbnail;

shifting, in response to another predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, from selecting the frame-unit thumbnail to selecting the group-unit thumbnail; and

setting, as an edit point, a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein when in the shifting from selecting the group-unit thumbnail to selecting the frame-unit thumbnail,

the frame-unit thumbnail array of the picture frame group corresponding to the group-unit thumbnail being selected is displayed in addition to the group-unit thumbnail array in correspondence to the group-unit thumbnail being selected;

and

when shifting from selecting the frame-unit thumbnail to selecting the group-unit thumbnail, the frame-unit thumbnail array is erased to display only the group-unit thumbnail array.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein in the displaying of a frame-unit thumbnail array, the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed to intersect each other in the position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein in the displaying of a frame-unit thumbnail array, the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed in parallel lines;

and

the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is displayed differently from other group-unit thumbnail(s).

18. The method of claim 14, wherein in the displaying of a group-unit thumbnail array, only the group-unit thumbnail array is displayed;

and

in the displaying of a frame-unit thumbnail array, only the frame-unit thumbnail array is displayed and an indication informing the user of a currently-selected edit-point selection is provided in the group- and frame-unit edit-point selecting steps.

19. A video data editing method of setting a frame as a predetermined edit-point in video data compressed into picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames and stored in a storage unit, the method comprising:

displaying, simultaneously on a display screen, a group-unit thumbnail array and a frame-unit thumbnail array, the group-unit thumbnail array including a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each being one picture frame thumbnail of the picture frame group in the video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the group-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, the frame-unit thumbnail array including a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each being a thumbnail of each of a plurality of video frames included in the picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the frame-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

accepting an operation made via a first control section of an operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail in the group-unit thumbnail array;

accepting an operation made via a second control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail; and

setting, in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit, a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail as an edit point.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed to intersect each other in the position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

and

the first control section of the operation command input unit controls the array direction of the group-unit thumbnails and the second control section of the operation command input unit controls the array direction of the frame-unit thumbnails.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

displaying a group-unit thumbnail array in which the plurality of group-unit thumbnails is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time;

accepting a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, supplied via the operation command input unit, to change the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail,

in response to a predetermined-operation command supplied via the operation command input unit, shifting to the simultaneous display of the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays on the display screen.

22. A video data editing method of setting a frame as a predetermined edit-point in video data compressed into picture frame groups each including a plurality of picture frames and stored in a storage unit, the method comprising:

displaying, simultaneously on a display screen, a group-unit thumbnail array and a frame-unit thumbnail array, the group-unit thumbnail array including a plurality of group-unit thumbnails each being one picture frame thumbnail of the picture frame group in the video data stored in the storage unit is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the group-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail, the frame-unit thumbnail array including a plurality of frame-unit thumbnails each being a thumbnail of each of a plurality of video frames included in the picture frame group corresponding to the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is laid in a sequence of their elapsed time and one of the frame-unit thumbnails is taken as a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

selecting the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail in response to an operation command supplied via a first control section of an operation command input unit;

accepting an operation made via a second control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected group-unit thumbnail in the group-unit thumbnail array;

accepting an operation command supplied via a third control section, different from the first control section, of the operation command input unit as a command for changing a currently-selected frame-unit thumbnail; and

setting a frame corresponding to the currently-selected group- or frame-unit thumbnail as an edit point in response to a set command supplied via the operation command input unit.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed to intersect each other in the position of the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail;

and

the second control section of the operation command input unit is a directional control for controlling the array direction of the group-unit thumbnails and the third control section of the operation command input unit is a direction control for controlling the array direction of the frame-unit thumbnails.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays are displayed in two parallel lines, respectively, and the currently-selected group-unit thumbnail is displayed differently from other group-unit thumbnail array(s);

and

the second and third control sections of the operation command input unit are the same control section for designating the directions of the group- and frame-unit thumbnail arrays.